The Ancient Ruins Research Institute had once made some deductions about the origin of the Otherworld, guessing that this place might have been an important port of the Primordial Civilization, which was why it could gather Interstellar Visitors from every corner of the cosmos.
Zero told Meng Chao that their guess was broadly correct.
This truly was a port.
More precisely, it was a lighthouse, a Transfer Station, and an Incubation Pool.
This port connected forty-two star systems, highly likely to harbor life, across three spiral arms at the edge of the universe that had only recently been discovered by the Primordial Civilization.
Among these forty-two star systems, Zero had selected over a hundred Earth-like Planets.
It sent a Genesis Engine to each of them, hoping that before long, new life would emerge on these Earth-like Planets and, under the Genesis Engine's guidance, gradually evolve into the likeness of the Primordial Civilization, thereby expanding the civilization's dominion.
The Genesis Engine contained not only "tutorials" for the evolution of civilization, but also a great many "test questions."
The original idea had been that, once a civilization evolved to a certain stage, it would activate one set of test questions after another.
If the local civilization could pass most of the tests, it could unlock the Genesis Engine's advanced functions and gain the ability to travel through space, crossing over to the Home Port to receive further cultivation here before finally joining the great family of the Primordial Civilization at the heart of the sea of stars.
Because this star region lay far too distant from the heart of the sea of stars, and the new Genesis plan had only just begun, even Zero could not calculate the likelihood that life, or even civilization, would arise here after countless years.
Thus, its